To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative.

Paul Hawken, Ecology of Commerce

WHAT is Environmental Enterprise?Enterprise / business where the product or service provides a sustainable environmental solution or alternative.

Environmental Enterprise ExamplesSolar drying

Bee-keeping products

Fruit juice and fruit products

Environmental Enterprise ExamplesRainwater Barrel Collection Businesses

Biodiesel & Vegetable Oil Engines

Bicycles as Alternative Transport

Environmental Enterprise ExamplesEco-Tourism / Geo-Tourism

Edible seaweed collection

Growing Jatropha plants and processing oil from seeds for lamp fuel

NOT only new technologies, but also traditional methods of doing things

We believe .

- Youth need to be true project partners

- Youth are sources of innovation & knowledge

Youth Environmental Enterprise Training Programs

Peer teaching and mentoring

Environmental Entrepreneurship Clubs at Schools

Study Tours to learn about market potential

Self-managed Savings and Credit Groups (Savings-led MicroFinance)

A greening of the human mind must precede the greening of the earth

M.S. Swaminathan

Facilitating the preparation of Environmental Enterprise Plans for communities

Local Collaborative Learning Clusters - Environmental Enterprise Development Initiatives (EEDIs)

Selecting business ideasValue Chain Market development approachSelect industries that growing, large potential for MSEs and youth participationConsider all levels of chain, not just MSE level (vertical and horizontal linkages)

www.eco-ventures.org

"If you change the way you look at things

the things you look at change

Facilitating project collaboration and sharing of information and learning between organizations traditionally working in isolation